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The human brain is very good at seeking out and focusing on the negative.

Served us well when we were cavemen and avoiding stuff that could kill us all day.

Not so much nowadays.

We naturally veer towards negativity and unhappiness……..

Unless we train ourselves in the opposite direction.

We feel that, for us to be happy, all these different things need to happen.

Lots of things need to change.

The planets need to align.

A virtual buffet.

But it only takes one thing to make us unhappy.

One bad experience.

One thing not going as we’d like.

A single item.

A menu, if you will.

10 really hard things needed to make us happy.

One really easy thing to make us sad.

Or, from another angle, loads of things that could make us unhappy.

Relatively few that could make us happy.

Changing that, like any skill, takes practice.

A concerted effort to change.

Feeling somewhat forced to begin with.

Becoming more natural over time.

Some choose to frame this as “a lowering of standards”.

But, if our expectations are consistently not being met and leading to our mood being less than it could be……..

And, therefore, us showing up in the world as a lesser version of ourselves…….

Then who benefits from those unrealistic expectations?

Not us.

Not those around us.

Often our brain is guilty of taking for granted the good things in our life.

The successes.

The things that went exactly as planned.

Pretty much forgetting them and moving on to the next thing immediately.

Getting to the end of the day or week and struggling to remember anything that went well.

And having a long list of things what weren’t so good.

Practicing appreciation is an invaluable skill.

Recognising what’s good in our life.

And building on it.

What we appreciate appreciates (increases).

Setting plans and goals which are worthwhile……

But realistic.

Breaking them down into steps we can achieve each day.

Generating confidence and momentum from success.

Rather than perceived failure from not having completed the whole goal.

Much love,

Jon ‘Do like a good buffet’ Hall

Jon Hall
Jon Hall

When not helping people to transform their lives and bodies, Jon can usually be found either playing with his kids or taxi-ing them around. If you'd like to find out more about what we do at RISE then enter your details in the box to the right or bottom of this page or at myrise.co.uk - this is the same way every single one of the hundreds who've described this as "one of the best decisions I've ever made" took their first step.